Arms imports in Iran

Arms imports in Iran: 141 million TIV in 1960 and 42 million TIV in 2024, by SIPRI estimates.

Latest, 2024: 42 million TIV
Since 1960: −99 million TIV
World, 2024: 30.6 billion TIV

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Estimates, SIPRIWorld

What the numbers say

The highest was 5.48 billion TIV in 1977, the lowest 2 million TIV in 2020.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Iran	World
2025	–	33.3 billion
2024	42 million	30.6 billion
2023	21 million	29.5 billion
2022	–	33 billion
2021	–	26.8 billion
2020	2 million	23.4 billion
2019	3 million	26.9 billion
2018	3 million	27.3 billion
2017	3 million	31.2 billion
2016	413 million	31.4 billion
2015	11 million	28.7 billion
2014	14 million	27 billion
2013	14 million	27.4 billion
2012	39 million	27.9 billion
2011	89 million	29.9 billion
2010	87 million	25.8 billion
2009	92 million	24 billion
2008	57 million	24.1 billion
2007	325 million	26.5 billion
2006	418 million	24.4 billion
2005	53 million	21.3 billion
2004	117 million	21.3 billion
2003	283 million	19.2 billion
2002	435 million	17.7 billion
2001	526 million	18.3 billion
2000	417 million	20.5 billion
1999	321 million	25.3 billion
1998	374 million	27.9 billion
1997	172 million	28.9 billion
1996	608 million	23.7 billion
1995	289 million	22.9 billion
1994	451 million	22.8 billion
1993	960 million	25.8 billion
1992	406 million	24.3 billion
1991	990 million	27.8 billion
1990	444 million	28.6 billion
1989	194 million	31.7 billion
1988	469 million	32.9 billion
1987	807 million	36.2 billion
1986	805 million	35.5 billion
1985	639 million	33.2 billion
1984	562 million	36.8 billion
1983	466 million	39.1 billion
1982	499 million	41.4 billion
1981	487 million	42 billion
1980	278 million	37.4 billion
1979	526 million	33.3 billion
1978	3.72 billion	39.2 billion
1977	5.48 billion	37 billion
1976	4.65 billion	33 billion
1975	5.23 billion	34.2 billion
1974	2.86 billion	32.9 billion
1973	2.05 billion	32.6 billion
1972	1.38 billion	28.7 billion
1971	2.1 billion	29.3 billion
1970	899 million	22.1 billion
1969	950 million	24.7 billion
1968	917 million	22.4 billion
1967	553 million	22.1 billion
1966	601 million	22.4 billion
1965	496 million	23.1 billion
1964	139 million	24.2 billion
1963	105 million	18.1 billion
1962	83 million	15.5 billion
1961	75 million	15 billion
1960	141 million	15.7 billion

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Major weapons the country received, in SIPRI trend-indicator values (TIV): what the arms are worth as military capability, priced by their production cost, not what was paid.
Source: SIPRI Arms Transfers Database, via the World Bank.
The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.

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